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29 Aug 2011, 11:04 pm
In reality, the legislature, like many or legislatures, is trying to find money from anywhere it can as states are broke, roads need paving, jails are overflowing, and schools can't pay teachers. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 12:28 pm
The Texas Legislature made several changes to the Texas Business Organizations Code (BOC) that become effective September 1, 2011. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 8:26 am
Members of the California State Legislature expressed surprise at the findings. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 5:11 am
"Indeed, because the main need is more resources and the state's leadership has long been allergic to new taxes, Texas' political leadership appears utterly incapable of approving more than band-aid fixes to this problem, meaning it's up to judges like Hohengarten to push the envelope until the legislative branch actually addresses it.County jails and state prisons have become the de facto mental health system in Texas already. [read post]
Family law amendments, felony DUI, sentencing, securities fraud and a busy week in the court kitchen
28 Aug 2011, 6:15 pm
In a blistering 12-page dissent, Judge Ronald Wilson of the Brooke County Circuit Court said the Supreme Court of Appeals majority "capitulated to the West Virginia Legislature's political and unconstitutional mistreatment of medical malpractice victims. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 1:29 pm
The state legislature passed the law in 2007, which imposing a $5-per-visit fee on patrons, in the interest of deterring behaviors purported linked to viewing nude dancing, particularly while consuming alcohol, including sexual assault, rape and disorderly conduct. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 12:41 pm
However that may be, even if in some meta-legal sense it might be “better” for the process of recognizing same-sex marriage rights to proceed state by state, legislature by legislature, or referendum by referendum, that road is now closed. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 5:08 am
" In addition to the state’s severe “cap” on compensation and other restrictions on patients’ legal rights, enacted after voters were convinced to change the state constitution in 2003, cases involving medical malpractice in emergency rooms have been knocked out almost completely, making Texas ER’s some of the most dangerous in the country. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 5:54 am
Harvey Hildebran, that's clearly aimed at the FLDS polygamist sect in West Texas but, naturally, will now apply to everybody. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 4:56 am
Those felons will have to remain in Texas, state officials said.Bryan Collier, deputy executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice that runs the prison system, said about 11,500 of Texas' 156,000 state prisoners are not U.S. citizens — and about 6,000 of those currently have a deportation order pending against them.This is probably the most significant bill passed in the 82nd Legislature aimed at reducing… [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 4:34 pm
But Texas taxpayers continue to pick up the tab for maintaining the empty structure — $1.2 million and counting, officials said.Prison officials said they are following the wishes of the Legislature, but a key lawmaker whose committee oversees the prison agency said keeping the building makes little sense in such tight budget times. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 8:46 am
It is up to each State's Legislature to figure out what the punishment range should be. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 6:00 am
With his recent entrance into the 2012 presidential campaign, Texas Governor Rick Perry’s views on the U.S. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 6:57 am
In 1987, the Texas Legislature authorized the state Water Development Board to provide grants and loans for water and wastewater services in colonias. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 6:38 am
Baird, 1972); so-called “hippies” (United States v. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 2:27 pm
If the entire framework were to be struck down, then it would affect many Texas businesses and the state budget. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 7:49 am
The Texas Legislature created the office two years ago after repeated instances of shoddy legal work by appeals attorneys representing capital murder convicts. [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 4:33 pm
Magazine: TX Cuts Family Planning, Funding Allocated for CPCs: Starting on September 1, approximately 180,000 women in Texas will be without access to contraception and preventive services as a result of the state Legislature's cuts to family planning services... [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 7:34 am
So don't be surprised if, given the Legislature's inability to manage its business, sometime in the future the federal courts end up having to do it for them, just like in the Golden State. [read post]
20 Aug 2011, 4:36 pm
Looking at it from the perspective of the state’s own residents, I think it’s a terrible deal, and if I were a state legislature, I would set strict limits on the percentages of out-of-state and international students that could be admitted, and the larger the pool of highly qualified applicants — California or Texas are pretty easy cases — the less reason to admit non-residents.The problem is a classic public choice problem.… [read post]
